{"id":2261,"date":"2016-05-11T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:04:20","slug":"poem-forging-another-plan-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/poem-forging-another-plan-it\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Forging Another Plan It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Politics<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Is just<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Another plan it<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Plutocracy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The best<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Money can bye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Hey-Corporations-It-s-BY-The-People-Not-BUY-The-People-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Hey-Corporations-It-s-BY-The-People-Not-BUY-The-People.gif\" alt=\"Hey Corporations, It's 'BY The People' Not 'BUY' The People POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>This short poem is about money in politics, the ultimate manifestation of which is plutocracy. \u00a0When money is king, you can say good buy to democracy. \u00a0Do you feel like you are living on some different planet: planet Plutocracy? \u00a0The plan it is from rich folks, the 1%. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Invest-in-America-Buy-a-Congressman-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Invest-in-America-Buy-a-Congressman.gif\" alt=\"Invest in America. Buy a Congressman! POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>You can call it oligarchy, kleptocracy, or corporatacracy, but, in our synonym-spiced political system, money trumps people, and corporate persons trump human persons. \u00a0There is little comfort in having\u00a0the best political system that money can buy. \u00a0As presidential election season rolls around, the aristocracy steamrolls what&#8217;s left of democracy in a rigged system, offering only the illusion of choice. \u00a0This bankrupt system, not surprisingly, produces a billionaire megalomaniac where authoritarianism is the default and all of our problems are somebody else&#8217;s fault, and a Wall Street abettor with imperial ambitions. <a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/This-is-the-Only-Bill-Unanimously-Passed-in-Congress-100-Dollar-Bill.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/This-is-the-Only-Bill-Unanimously-Passed-in-Congress-100-Dollar-Bill.gif\" alt=\"\t This is the Only Bill Unanimously Passed in Congress (100 Dollar Bill) - POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, represent the surreal diversity of aristocrats. \u00a0Se\u00f1or Trump will build a wall and the Mexicans will pay for it &#8212; because they love him! \u00a0Commander-in-chief Hillary Clinton will put the finishing touches on the Death Star by providing its minions and minionettes paid maternity leave and affordable debt sentences. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure the winner will be whichever cult can round up and sacrifice the most chickens running around with their heads cut off. \u00a0As for me, I&#8217;m going to vote for the candidate favored by our great, great, great, grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Is just Another plan it Plutocracy The best Money can bye This short poem is about money in politics, the ultimate manifestation of which is plutocracy. \u00a0When money is king, you can say good buy to democracy. \u00a0Do you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/11\/poem-forging-another-plan-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[385,416,272,134,671,672,273,66,634,522,658,94,17,215,106,333,53,67,4],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-death","tag-debt","tag-democracy","tag-diversity","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-love","tag-money","tag-oligarchy","tag-plutocracy","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-political","tag-politics","tag-rich","tag-sacrifice","tag-short-poems","tag-surreal","tag-wall-street"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: Forging Another Plan It | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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